STS-76 Mission Commander Kevin P. Chilton (left); Mission Specialists
Linda M. Godwin and Shannon W. Lucid; Pilot Richard A. Searfoss and
Mission Specialist Michael "Rich" Clifford chat shortly after their
arrival at KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility. Not shown is Payload
Commander Ronald M. Sega. The astronauts' late-night arrival allows
them to maintain the shift in their waking and sleeping hours, altered
in preparation for their upcoming spaceflight. The Space Shuttle
Atlantis is scheduled to lift off on STS-76 around 3:35 a.m. EST,
March 21, with one of the primary mission objectives being the third
docking between the U.S. Shuttle and the Russian Space Station Mir.
(Photo Release Date: 3/17/96
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